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NEW DATA REFLECT WIDESPREAD IMPACTS OF SEQUESTRATION ON HEAD START KIDS
district provides home-to-school transportation to about 1,400 students daily, or about 60 percent of all stu- dents, she said. Presently, five of the district’s fleet of 21 are new CNG buses that Hastain was able to purchase thanks to grants from the South Coast Air Quality Management District. Four- teen buses are diesel, but Hastain said she plans to convert them to CNG using future grant funds. Te other buses run on gasoline. Hastain obtained grant funds from the California Energy Commission and the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee to build the CNG fueling station. “I’m always searching the Internet and talking with people to find mon- ey,” Hastain said. “To be able to move ahead with CNG, we need help from the state agencies.”
York are experiencing the largest loss of Head Start students individually. Te White House has projected that 70,000 fewer U.S. children will be served by
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the program due to the sequestration. Te federal early-education program is being cut by $427 million. All local
agencies nationwide have the flexibility to implement 5.27-percent cuts, which the National Head Start Association (NHSA) said amounts to $405 million annually for program budgets. So far, the ACF data indicate that 57,265 students have been eliminated from Head
Start enrollment. California tallied 5,611 students who will lose out on services — the most in the nation — followed by Texas at 4,410 and New York state at 3,847. Te other states seeing more than 2,000 students cut from enrollment are: Pennsylvania (2,812); Ohio (2,782); Tennessee (2,442); Michigan (2,204); and Massachusetts (2,015). “Sequestration has reached every corner of the country, and its harmful cuts have shut the window of opportunity for tens of thousands of at-risk children. Teir fam- ilies are struggling to mitigate unexpected changes that make it harder to have a fair shot at the American Dream," said NHSA Executive Director Yasmina Vinci. “We hope Congress and the Administration can find ways to address the sequester before more children miss out on their opportunity to succeed in school and life.”
he Administration for Children and Families (ACF) released estimates for FY2014 on how the sequester of federal funds enacted by Congress last spring are expected to reduce services, such as transportation, for preschool children from low-income families nationwide. California, Texas and New
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